Quilting attachment for sewing-machines



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QUILTING ATTACHMENT FOR SEWING MACHINES. No. 485,100. Patented 001:. 25,1892.

jiii UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN C. GALLOi/NAY, OF BALLINGER, TEXAS.

QUILTING ATTACHMENT FOR SEWING-MACHINES.

SIPE(LIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 485,100, datedOctober 25, 1892.

Application filed May 24, 1892. $eria1No. i (N0 11105613 To all whom itmay concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN C. GALLOWAY, a citizen of the United States,residing at Ballinger, in the county of Runnels and State of Texas, haveinvented a new and useful Quilting-Frame, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to quilting-frames of that class designed for usein connection with sewing-machines; and it consists of the constructionand arrangement of the several parts, as will be more fully hereinafterdescribed and claimed.

The object of the invention isto provide a device of the character setforth adapted to be adjusted in any manner desired over the leaf, table,or arm of a sewing-machine, the parts being simple and efiective intheir construction and operation.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improved device.Fig. 2 is a central transverse vertical section. Fig. 3 is an endelevation of the quilting-frame proper. Fig. 4 is a detail elevation ofa part of the frame.

Similar numerals of reference are employed to indicate correspondingparts in the several views.

Referring to the drawings, the numeral 1 designatesa post or standardwhich is mounted on a suitable base 2 of sufficient size and weight tohold the device entire in equilibrium; From the top portion of one sideof the said post or standard projects an arm 3, which has its inner endat shouldered and dovetailed to fit a dovetail recess 5 in the top ofthe post and supplied with an under supporting-bracket 6. The front orfree end of the arm 3 is beveled and has a bevel-sided projection 7,fitting a corresponding recess 8 in the central portion of a track-bar9, which is secured against the end of said arm. The upper edge of thebar 9 is beveled on opposite sides to form a V-shaped edge 10, havingprojections 11 extending upward from opposite ends. The track-bar 9 isadapted to re ceive a grooved wheel 12, carried by a hanger 13, which isclosed on one side and open on the opposite side, so that the wheel 12may be placed in engagement with and disengaged from the track-bar 9 atwill, and the said wheel is adapted to be limited in its endwise andcomprising the quilting-frame proper.

The ends 19 of the bar 14 are formed into journals and extend throughopenings 20 in said yokes and are separably held in connection with saidyokes by pins 21, passing transversely through the said ends 19 andbearing against the outer surfaces of the said yokes or arms 15. Bymeans of the construction described the quilting-frame may be turned ina circular line horizontally or 0scillated transversely or laterally tothereby adjust the same to proper position for different kinds of workin sewing the quilt. The rollers 16 and 18 are removably fitted to theirsupporting-arms and the roller 17 journaled as shown. Each of therollers are supplied with ratchet-wheels 22 at their opposite ends,adapted to be engaged by pawls 23, situated adjacent thereto and bymeans of which the adjustment of the several rollers may be readilysustained. The intention and use of these rollers are readily understoodby those skilled in the art.

It will be observed that the end yokes or arms 15 are not connected bybraces or, ties of any form other than the parts shown to avoidobstruction of the passage through and between said yokes or arms, andsaid parts are thereby so arranged as to form a clear opening atopposite ends of the quilting-frame proper, said openings being in theform of arches, making it convenient to swing or turn the saidquilting-frame without striking or interfering with the frame orleaf ofthe machine, and, also, said quilting-frame is caused to straddle thearm of the machine, for fancy stitching or other manipulation. By meansof the pivotal mounting of the arms or yokes 15, as hereinbeforesetforth, the quilt can always be kept at a level on the sewing-machine andavoid raising or tilting one side of quilt higher than the other, andwhen nearing completion of the quilt there will be more weight on oneroller than on the other two rollers, and the tendency of the quilt totilt is not sogreat as would be the case were 7 cross braces and tiesemployed, as will be evident. V 7

As before referred to, the base 2 may be sustained in position by itssize and weight;

but as an additional means of sustaining the said bar connected to thecentral part of the upper portions of the same and open at their lowerends to form an unobstructed passageway, substantially as described.

2. In a quilting-frame, the combination of a standard supporting atrack-bar and a quilting-frame proper having a hanger carrying a groovedwheel engaging said track-bar and curved end yokes or arms with upper 30connecting-arches and depending legs with a clear space between thesame, said legs being parallel and unconnected at the bottom thereof,substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as 3 5 my own I have heretoaffixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

JOHN C. GALLOWAY.

Witnesses:

J. M. BADGER, W. F. SHARP.

